The Hall of Fire

Those are very pretty, Elentári! Thanks for the links.

I only know L'enfance by name, I've never heard it, and I didn't know there was anything that famous by Peter Cornelius. I know his name as a composer, but don't think I know any of his works (or didn't till now ).

Ah - thanks, Nin!

(One wonders why the publishers chose to miss the Christmas business for the DVD, though.)

Ok, Christmas is over, but I thought I should add Bach's Christmas Oratorio to the list. :D About half a dozen listenings are a minimum during Advent and Christmas for me, normally. :D I totally swoon for "Messiah", too, of course, and I certainly listen to the first part of it numerous ti...

I loved this movie, Lurker. :D I thought it was a lot more respectable than "Fahrenheit", for example, which (although I liked it, too) did admittedly have a number of frivolously manipulative moments. The most moving bit, for me, was where the workers seize the factory to get their pay an...

You guys already have it on DVD? I'd meant to get it for Christmas but was told the DVD will only be out in spring here. :| Loved the movie, too, and cried a lot, but in a good way. :) Sure, there were some moments that were a bit too cartoony (the air-battle for example), but that didn't spoil the ...

Why did it astonish you? I think he is awesome, but I wonder how he can be translated. There are so many word-games and so many anagrams in his books, if it's well-translated, the ranslator must be awesome too. I really, really like Moers. Well, like I said, I don't think he's bad, but I don't thin...

Just throwing in another vote for anything by Lindgren for children. :D Though I'm not sure if 11 isn't already too old for her. Nin, yep, I couldn't believe it when I noticed that Moers of all people gets translated so much. (Not that I think he's bad, just that there's a lot of great stuff that do...

Pearly Di wrote:Oh, and Rachmaninov's Vespers. I have the recording done by the Corydon Singers, which I can't recommend highly enough. Such magnificent music, and so haunting and worshipful.

I have to admit I'd never heard of it before we started rehearsing it.

A puppy, Prim? Hehe, sweet!

Crucifer, it may be easy to sing the notes, but it's still not easy to sing them well.

I've been listening to Russian Orthodox music for years now: Well, it's not male voices only, but very beautfully Russian, too - we did some pieces from Rachmaninov's "All Night Vigil" for our concert a month ago. Apparently one of the most famous ones of them: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Pearly linked me here. :) I think this would be pretty cool for the moot. :D Maybe not the whole five hours, but excerpts for sure. :) I've watched the first two episodes so far and thought the Bilbo-Gollum meeting was genuinely scary. Gollum as a real person is so much more frightening than as a CG...

It looks like they really mean to go ahead with it. :shock: :D A Home for Hobbits City presents model for new musical theatre. (Summary of main points of the article)... the design shows a parabolic shaped building with concave walls. Seating for 1800 people is planned, building is planned to start ...

If you got 33 wrong, which option did you guys pick and why?
I agree the answer was a bit daft, as it basically just rephrased the question - but all the other options were so obviously nonsensical!

Wow, thanks all for the answers on the Puritans! :) I guess it's true what's been said about the distortion of history through legend. I mean, I think of the Puritans of the English Civil War as being a pretty unpleasant lot, but the Puritans who went to the US I've only ever heard of presented as s...

I don't know. I think that as a description of the effect charisma has on people, the quote from Tolkien is extremely perceptive and insightful. And Obama does have charisma. Note, please, that I'm not saying Obama's evil like Saruman. But I do think that when people listen to him what happens is ve...

Wow, lidless. Guess they didn't let you go to Cambridge for nothing, eh?

That was a fun thing to do for breakfast. :D I got 23 out of 33, which for a non-American isn't so bad, I guess. :) But :bow: for Tosh. Anyway, I'm not sure this test actually tests what its writers think it tests. It was more of a 'highlights of American History' quiz than a 'Do you understand civi...

LOLOL, I'd not meant to look in here again, but it only takes a certain dose of alcohol (which always makes me very favourably inclined to all mankind, just as described in the Ode to Joy, which is really a drinking song, if you read all the verses, but that's just btw), old threads revived with int...

Alatar, true, but none of the 'concerts' that you describe are actually proper music-making. They are, as you say, for people who expect pre-packaged things, mass-events. It's ok, I suppose, for these audiences, but not for anyone who wants to hear music, rather than entertainment. So, I do hope tha...

hobby, this is a weird thing that I only just realized, but Les Misérables doesn't have an English title, even published in English translation ( Amazon link ). Other French classics have translated titles, but not this one. Weird, isn't it? With the unease English speakers often have with "fo...